re: XP - Spyware.. Hmmmm...
Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 11:31 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by walt
(26 messages posted)
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On Thursday, October 17, 2002 at 8:55 pm, Mindbomb wrote:
>Odd things arise from Windows XP from time to time - especially if your net to the
>NT platform. But this evening I was doing some things with a new router, and was
>trying to match an open port to a process, and that process was inetinfo.exe. This
>process is started with any IIS application or service. So they say. After setting
>all IIS services to disabled, this inetinfo.exe process continues to load when the
>system is restarted. My problem with this, is that it's sending data of some sort
>to sa.windows.com - WHY? Something else thats odd - go to the services manager,
>stop all services that start with IIS. Set them to disabled in the properties,
and
>check your processes - if inetinfo.exe is still running, terminate it. Now go to
>\WINNT\system32\inetsrv and delete inetinfo.exe.....wait a few seconds, and it's
>back. On reboot it will be loaded regardless of IIS services. Why do they want
>a sevice that is useless for non-webserver machines running all the time? I think
>it's a form of spyware.. Microsoft's own.. Any ideas?
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